Post-Vietnam Dioxin Exposure in Agent Orange-Contaminated C-123 Aircraft

by Board on the Health of Select Populations, Committee to Evaluate the Potential Exposure of Agent Orange/Tcdd Residue and Level of Risk of Adver, Institute of Medicine

From 1972 to 1982, approximately 1,500-2,100 US Air Force Reserve personnel trained and worked on C-123 aircraft that had formerly been used to spray herbicides in Vietnam as part of Operation Ranch Hand. After becoming aware that some of the aircraft on which they had worked had previously served this purpose, some of these AF Reservists applied to the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for compensatory coverage under the Agent Orange Act...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309308909
• ISBN13: 9780309308908
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"